Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

offers the most detailed look yet at the violent energy bursts that small stars can unleash. Though Proxima is only a red dwarf—a star much smaller and cooler than our Sun—this latest flare ...

Red dwarfs are the most common star type in the universe, but most are too far from Earth for researchers to easily spot ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat.